Armed bandits raid market, killing at least 20 people in northwest Nigeria's Sokoto State.

Press TV conducts an interview with Nigeria’s most senior Shia cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky.

Dozens of fishermen have reportedly been killed after a Nigerian fighter jet bombed a village in the country’s conflict-ridden northeast.

Nigerian police have killed eight people at a peaceful procession of Shia Muslims marking Arba’een.

Criminal gangs have terrorized northwestern and central Nigeria for years.

The UNICEF says at least one million Nigerian children could miss school amid a rise in mass school kidnappings and insecurity.

Seventy-five children who were kidnapped from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara have been r released.

Gunmen have killed 12 Nigerian security forces in a raid on a military base in northwest Zamfara state.

Unknown gunmen attack a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara and kidnap 73 students, just days after three other groups of hostages were freed when large ransom payments were reportedly made in the African country.

A number of abducted children in northern Nigeria are freed from captivity after three months and are waiting to be reunited with their families.